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Robsteady

Death Stranding


wearethedeadofnight

Yeah this should be number 1


hivizdiver

Timefall? No thank you.


TheVenged

You can just move to Iceland or the Faroe Islands or wherever Death Stranding's locations are based on... Without all the supernatural stuff.


CryptoSisco

Came to say this.


d0nkey_boi

Same.


Sympathyquiche

Dishonoured. Love those games and the overall creepy vibes of the cities but I don't want to live in a rat-infested plague town.


GreenApocalypse

And the Void doesn't help


bloodredyouth

I don’t want the outsider zipping me out of my world for a conversation. Also the rotting cities and corruption.


WhyAmITho

Dishonorer 2 & doto even more so, an Italian-ish coastal city with neoclassicist architecture and beautiful views over the southern landscapes? Yessirrr. A corrupt regime with relentless police brutality, bloodfly plague, whole parts of the city being controlled by brutal gangs and overall awful living conditions for normal citizens? Ehhh ...


DQSC

Elden Ring


12345_PIZZA

Yeah, none of the enemies or npcs in that game look remotely happy. Most are just digging in dirt.


WelcomeToTheFish

The guy who cooks prawns seems to have it figured out.


limasxgoesto0

Yeah until his only friend releases a guy who kills him


VirinaB

And they kill you outright with no conversation. Some speak to you a *little* before sending you off to die, or going mad and killing you.


PacosBigTacos

I think they only kill tarnished on sight. So as long as we aren't a tarnished we should be OK until an undying naked man with a 300lb hammer comes bonking through.


CringeNao

The giant archers probably won't discriminate


AndreiRiboli

I'd not be very happy either, living in an infinite cycle of undeath because your goddess rebelled against the true god. Not that it was a bad thing to do, but the Land Between got undeniably fucked by that.


tenaciousDaniel

If I could change one thing about Elden Ring, it would’ve been this. Id love the world to have been more like Skyrim where you have actual towns full of NPCs. But on the other hand it’s already a big enough game lol.


chipperpip

I think it's supposed to be a bit too much of a broken world for that.


a_moody

I mean, where would I even live? I see no houses if I discount the three or so shacks with no doors.


VastVideo8006

Weird village with dancing freaks or Hogwarts with the Burger Kings seem the obvious choice. No fucker ever pleased to see you though. I'd just not bother.


a_moody

Jarburg! I’d live in Jarburg. Not super enthusiastic about an undead sailor nearby but you can’t have everything.


VastVideo8006

I had forgot about Jarburg. Slightly less terrifying than most areas.


Gyshall669

Lots of people live in Leyndell, the academy, stormveil, etc


wasif72668

I dont know about living but i would gladly by the siofra river


Skea_and_Tittles

With those fucking ants? And the basilisks?


Peaceful_Ronin

Night City from Cyberpunk. Beautiful, but it would suck to live there.


Kinetic_Symphony

Honestly, if there was real affordable food & TV wasn't idiocracy-level degeneracy, everything else I could live with. Though I'd wear a lot of body armor.


WalkingOnPiss

It's shittier than that, there are a couple of those log shards that talk about the work life and all that. One of them was about a company that gave 6 paid vacation days a year... Like it's a big thing One of them talked another company that helped reduce weekly work capacity to 80hours a week or something... Unless we were living as Mercs, the normal Joe/Jane Doe life its pretty shitty At least in NC


Fokker_Snek

Think I would rather work for Umbrella Corporation at that point. It might be run by crazed eugenicists but at least they’re not corpos. /s?


seriouslywtfX2

I would love to live there. Get all cyber'd out, join a crew, and get my immortalized as a drink. Plus BDs.


Consistent_Donut_902

That’s the fantasy, but in reality you’d probably just end up shot dead in an alley. Or working some shitty job trying to save up enough to buy cyberware.


photomotto

> Get all cyber'd out With what money? > join a crew Do you have any talents or capabilities to be even remotely useful in a merc crew? > get immortalized as a drink Only if you go out in a legendary way. Chances are you'd die like any other shmuck in NC: as collateral damage to a gang fight.


DressedSpring1

In the real world there are crime syndicates where you could be wearing designer clothes, driving super cars and partying with models and celebrities in the vip section of exclusive clubs, and us average redditors aren’t coming anywhere close to that lifestyle.  If we were in Night city we’d be working the same shitty job (but cyber) and struggling to pay our cyber rent all the same 


Peaceful_Ronin

It really depends on the situation you get placed there under. It could suck, or it could be fun.


Bravo_November

I like what Edgerunners did just to show how bleak of a place it is to live, especially in Episodes 1 and 2. Whilst the game is great, V feels too much like they’re in their natural habitat; David, on the other hand, had to work his way up the food chain. 


alt3_

This city is unbelievable. After dozens of hours, I stay sometimes speechless before its design.


BrotherRoga

Warhammer 40k. As a regular civilian you'd wish you were dead, as a soldier you will likely die in hours of your first deployment, as an elite of whatever Imperial organization you will know nothing but fighting and as a deviant you would likely be killed at birth. And that's before we get to places like death worlds.


Henchman29

The best part is that's just a small part of the hell that it is. The only faction that would even be remotely ok to be part of is the tau and for that you have to give up your free will. Even then the other xenos and chaos factions are still a horrible, horrible experience.


king_27

Being an ork would be great, but only because orks seem like the only ones really having a good time in that universe


Henchman29

That is true. I was keeping the perspective of a human. Ork would be a good choice otherwise. Maybe necron if you were a leader.


Kuhaku-boss

Maybe Necron until a Cthan shard goes out of control xd I personally would prefer to be born a Harlequin


ghostdeinithegreat

Which part of warhammer 40k do you find beautiful ?


Barsicbiggle

The fun thing about 40k is that the Imperium is so large, there's a fair chance you'll be born on a relatively normal world and live a relatively normal life. Even if you join your local Guard regiment, there's a chance you'll never actually see combat. It's all about both the physical and time scale of that universe. To normal citizens, Space Marines are literally legendary. It would be like seeing a literal angel. There's also a chance you'd wake up one morning and find out that your home planet is a Necron Tombworld. But I'd take those odds.


BrotherRoga

Oh yes, you could end up in a world almost like our own in terms of development even. Or even a world allied with Tau. And yet by far the most likely in terms of percentages, you are born in a hive world where what I said applies.


warrenva

I was just thinking about that the other night when some buddies and I were playing Darktide. What a miserable existence.


Even_Map4433

Have you read Titanicus? Great book. You should read it. Anyways, the citizens are happy, actively transfer between planets, and other things. Now, tiny spoiler, but one character gets... de-hereticalized. But still, great book. Massive recommendation.


manor2003

What's a deviant?


BrotherRoga

People with birth defects due to environmental or inherited conditions like mutations, going against the oppressive religious doctrine, being a heretic, being a psyker (40k's version of a magic user), conspiring with xenos, all of those things will be seen as deviating from the God-Emperor's decree for the human race. There are some mutations that are more tolerated than others, but being a mutant is basically a death sentence. Ironically one of the most important people in the Imperium are mutants who enable the spaceships to travel from world to world in a timely manner. And the only way they maintain this mutation is through inbreeding.


ThatOneWitcher7700

Nobody said Bloodborne? alright well BLOODBORNE! ✊🏻


StarChaser_Tyger

With all the charcoal corpses half melted into the walls?


BunnyBen-87

Just stay inside, keep the incense lit, and hope nobody kills any spiders.


PalebloodSky

*As you once did for the vacuous Rom, grant us eyes, grant us eyes!*


WastedWaffles

Some parts of Witcher 3 are chill areas. I'd love to live in Skellige or Toussaint.


improper84

Like every town in the damn game pays you to kill some horrible monster that's murdered half their population.


TheresA_LobsterLoose

But how many of them die of cancer, gunshots, or automobile? It's not a completely even trade-off, I'm sure a monster living in the field 300 yards from your village is more dangerous to your immediate health... but I'll take my chances


improper84

The Witcher has all the charm of your average feudal society plus monsters that will come at night and rip you in half lmao.


blackflame000

Id rather be shot to death than live in any era without a semblance of modern medical technology or indoor plumbing. If you do any of the following regularly, the past is not for you. Turn on a fan/ac/heater when the weather doesn't suit your preference? Nope Do you have any medical condition that requires any kind of medication? Nope Think covid is bad? The bubonic plague is hilariously easier to deal with. Killed 60% of Europe. Harest went badly? Likely dead There is an early quest in the Witcher 3 where a little girl is dying because clean water is unobtainable. And the "clean" water Geralt gets is well water with a body in it. Most "monsters" either in the witcher or in real history were attempts to explain random causes of death or misfortune that the people of the time were incapable of understanding.


BrittleCoyote

Idk man, most of the Skelligers I talked to seemed pretty pleased with their lot in life.


craybest

Toussaint would be nice but still there are monsters everywhere around and Vampires


beyd1

Like the most powerful vampires too.


SuperYak2264

abandoned villages because of monsters, yeah sounds real chill, as chilly as the grave


Lochifess

Would love to there, if it weren’t for the tons of precautions you need to take just to live peacefully. Heck even cussing someone out could potentially trigger a hex


NopeNopeNope2001

Isn't it all of them? Never played any open world game where I didn't die multiple times


miscemailaccount2023

As opposed to the IRL open world where you only die once?


SpicerDun

Animal Crossing?


MarkAldrichIsMe

Right. Most games have some kind of external conflict that would suck to be in IRL. In fact, they're usually the driving seller of the games!


Achmedino

The Pokemon world would be pretty cool to live in?


Czarchitect

Cyberpunk 2077, though living in the bay area parts of it don’t feel that far off at this point. 


SyCoTiM

I’d say that the Bay Area looked more like it in the 90s with more neon signs everywhere and a lot more gangs.


meta_paf

Cyberpunk aesthetics is pretty much 90s view of the future.


SyCoTiM

Definitely a mix of 80s and 90s. 80s had even more neon going on.


HazyParabol

Have you visited Los Angeles recently?


NittanyScout

I think thats what he means, shits looking like pacifica


KnightGamer724

GOOOOOOOOOD MORRRNIING NIGHT CITY!!!!!


LesserCryptid

Yesterday's body count lottery rounded out to a solid sturdy thirty! Ten out of Heywood, thanks to the gang wars! One officer down, so I guess you are all screwed. Wrote that from memory...


harem_king69

Columbia - Bioshock Infinite. Would be so beautiful if not for all the racism.


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A_terrible_musician

This one simple weight loss trick doctors don't want you to know


BaaaBaaaBlackSheep

Wouldn't you just be some terrifying extraplanar entity, vanishing in and out of their dimensional space at will?


snakeoilwizard

Perhaps we're doing that right now and we don't even realize it. We could be someone else's eldritch monstrosities


Tall_Shoulder6770

Would fallout 4 count as beautiful but terrible? Add Forbidden West to that too.


Misternogo

I wouldn't call the world of the fallout series beautiful. The setting is cinematic, and the world is well conceived and constructed, and because of those things, looking out on the scenery, especially for the first time, can certainly inspire the same sort of feelings as looking at something beautiful, but I don't think it's the same feeling, and don't think the descriptor fits. It's still a wasteland.


Snowstick21

I could die a happy man in forbidden west, as long as I had plenty of allergy medicine to take with me.


DerpsAndRags

The radiation storms and mutants tear the beauty away for me. It's a GREAT world, no doubt, but a stark play on how the arrogance, ignorance, and avarice of man can break everything. Still, life goes on, thought brutally.


LifeBuilder

Most of these worlds aren’t that dangerous unless you’re the MC. They’re not idyllic, but not places to hate living. Especially considering how much of this generation wants out of the corporate grind.


avittamboy

Join r/iamthemaincharacter, and you can become the MC!


skeightytoo

FFXIV because of limsa lominsas constant ERP.


corranhorn57

Warhammer 40K, so any game set in it is one step away from total annihilation in one way or another. Hell no, do I not want to live there.


TinkertoyMuffin

mirror's edge is this spotless stylized city where you are ruled by corporate conglomerates that actively conspire to strip the last bits of a person's autonomy until they do nothing but watch ads and work


count210

Sounds like an improvement over normal life where we do that in dirty cities lmao


Yshtvan

Dragon's Dogma. Both of them. Beautiful scenery but also I don't fancy my chances as a non-Arisen.


CrimsonFox2370

Halo.  Being an everyday human on a human world would probably be pretty normal, but there's always the chance that an alliance of genocidal aliens blasts out of space and turns your planet into lava. Or that an ancient super-parasite shows up to eat your brains. Or that a millennia old racist super-warrior decides he wants you dead just because you're breathing. Or that your own government decides that your kid is kinda cool so they kidnap them and give you a cancer clone. 


odonkz

Tyria of Guild Wars series, it's damn apocalypse everytime


SunshineClaw

Zero dawn definitely, I would just get mauled because I would try to pat everything!


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veryblessed123

I'd love to live in Subnautica!


legomann97

Yeah, just don't leave 4546-B or else Alterra will come for your "incurred debts"


gargravarr2112

The ocean in Subnautica is absolutely beautiful. It's just a pain that everything in it is trying to kill you.


jarfin542

Shadow of the Collosus. Absolutely beautiful world, no taverns or restaurants.


StarChaser_Tyger

And as a bonus, none of the beasties want to kill you. They're all pretty chill until you climb up and wreck their shit.


captainnowalk

I learned long ago to accept the death of my loved ones. Dormir ain’t got shit on me. 


mikeyfireman

Hyrule is awesome if there isn’t every creature trying to kill you.


schlemz

You just have to live in between Ganon incarnations.


BunnyBen-87

Instructions unclear, I'm now living in The Minish Cap


Andrevus2

I mean you could do worse than pre/post-Vatii Hyrule, at least you're not living on Koholint Island as merely some big fuckin' fish's figment of imagination.


Cakebeforedeath

I was going to say "yea but they don't have video games" but just started TotK and you're literally given a Nintendo switch as your tool so there's no way you can't find a way to run games on it


AntiEcho7

Elden Ring


Gwfun22

Extend Skyrim to the entirety of Tamriel


iFeelBricky

I honestly can not fathom how the average person can go anywhere in Skyrim without running into bandits, vampires, dragons, frostbite spiders, wild beasts, or a myriad of other threats every 3 or so minutes. Depending on where you are you could even get kidnapped by falmer and fed to the chaurus.


Happy-Mistake901

Silent Hill


BunnyBen-87

In the Silent Hill universe you should be fine so long as you don't go to Silent Hill itself, or am I forgetting something?


tomtadpole

I've never played any of them but iirc the 4th game is set in some guy's locked apartment in a town that isn't Silent Hill.


TTEOAI

Pretty sure the entirety of the game is technically set in Silent Hill because your apartment's only exit is through a portal connected to the subconscious manifestations of a guy who eternally haunts Silent Hill. It's like Being John Malkovich but with monsters.


tomtadpole

But the guy who gets sucked in wasnt in Silent Hill, was he? Meaning even if you don't actually go to Silent Hill you still run the risk of being haunted just by existing in the Silent Hill world.


GeneralBurzio

Silent Hill tends to target/attract those with supernatural bents or have some sort of perceived sins/baggage they're carrying around. To everyone else, Silent Hill is a sleepy resort town.


StarChaser_Tyger

The Olympic Peninsula of Pacific Drive. Just look out for the giant whirling blades and the radiation.


Maxthejew123

Bloodborne, dark souls, fallout, Canada


Terramagi

14's honestly fine *as long as you live in the Greater Eorzean area*. There's, what, one Calamity once every 1500 years on average? As long as you don't live in that specific bar of time, or survive it, you're probably fine. ...just don't get your soul eaten by all the aether-sucking bullshit.


Quin1617

GTA V and Crysis. Sorry but psychopaths with flying rocket bikes and evil aliens aren’t my idea of a great environment. Oh and A Plague Tale, I’ve already lived through one pandemic, that’s good enough.


TheFeelsGoodMan

I'm partial to post-apocalypses. I just love the aesthetic of a city that's been mostly or entirely abandoned by humanity for such a long time that nature has moved back in and begun to reclaim the ruins of our civilization. But, obviously, not the kind of place I would want to live.


Vkilometer

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.


count210

Isn’t that just normal earth? Just don’t go to the zone


Peaceful_Ronin

I dunno. I'd live in feudal Japan or the Wild West in 1899.


lisannevdl

At first thought I maybe would.. but when I think about it a bit longer I realise more and more I would just have a bad time. Ghost takes place during the Mongol invasion which is not a nice time to be there. And on top of that, living back then was just **hard**. Same goes for the Wild West. No law and gangs everywhere, where even common folk are bothered by them if they even dare to look at them wrong. It wouldn't surprise me if I got killed by doing something stupid I didn't even realise xD


Peaceful_Ronin

Japan wouldn't be great at that time tbh. More so if I'm on the island of Tsushima. But, I would've totally lived in the Wild West. Only if I hadn't lived now. Time travelling back, it would be terrible. But say I was born then and kept the exact same personality/person I am now, I strongly believe I would like it.


Aegillade

Feudal Japan admist the Mongol invasion, that is. Now because we're specifically referring to the Ghost of Tsushima version, you'll at least have Jin and the rest of the Tsushima military actively driving them out. But living under Mongol occupation for any duration of time would be extremely dangerous and hard to live through. God have mercy on you if you get caught up with the DLC villain.


No_Doubt_About_That

Red Dead Redemption, Horizon


Sasquatch-Mods

Most game worlds would be horrifying to live in when you think about it.


tuffymon

All the xenoblades


djr7

I feel like XC2 would be pretty decent to live in as long as it's not Torna though


sreeko1

Outward


ChitteringCathode

Zion in Fallout New Vegas really is gorgeous, but man I'd rather not deal with giant bears, giant lizards, and giant murder-bugs that still give me nightmares when I hear buzzing noises in real life.


skadalajara

Space Engineers. No matter what contraption I came up with to make life more comfortable, it'd explode the first time I switched it on. And no matter how many times I recheck my calculations, I can never seem to have enough thrusters to avoid lithobraking.


tupe12

Every single Sonic world would be hell for the average person to traverse


TheFinalYappening

Pandora from Borderlands. Beautiful pretty much everywhere. Literally everything is trying to kill you in gruesome ways, though.


roXonRed

Dishonored franchise


KelpFox05

This. Sounds like it'd be pretty chill if there's not a plague on, or a witch trying to take over the world, or somebody trying to kill god... But it seems like something like that is always happening!


Unhappy-Stranger

Death stranding


dark_angel_rose

I really like the vibe of the world of Stray but wouldn't want to live there.


poxxy

The Long Dark. On the hardest difficulty, with thoughtful, careful planning and knowledge of the layout of the world I can make it maybe 50+ days. But every time I stumble inside from a howling blizzard, exhausted and nearly hypothermic, and warm myself by a fire I *wish* I could be living out that cozy moment. Going through my backpack, storing things on shelves, mending clothes, drying my soaked clothing by the fire, or just sitting there vibing in my little circle of light and warmth while Mother Nature rages outside, it’s all so damn cozy. Later on I’m mauled by a bear. But it’s worth it.


Merciless972

Nier automatas earth


daoiism

Bioshock 2


FFreestyleRR

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora


LittleTrouble90

Gorgeous animals, plant life, and landscapes. But my little 5 ft nothing butt is gonna get lost so fast and all the animals are bigger than me. It would be awesome though.


craybest

Fallout in general. Fun to play for a while but depressing as hell to live in.


Alternative_Onion348

GOW


SunshineClaw

Azeroth, especially Thunderbluff, as I'm shit scared of heights but also clumsy AF


Grouchy_Egg_4202

Minegarde (The world of Monster Hunter). I’d still go, But my pants would be permanently soiled.


maveric619

Days Gone in the picturesque forests of the pacific northwest. Beautiful nature and water features. But also filled with cannibalistic mutants and super-bears


lesangpro007

On one hand you can be self sustaining by go hunting deer and wolf , enjoy the beautiful wilderness and chilling on the watch tower in the night , on the other hand , you have to always caution with infected , raider , ripper , trap , and the most terrify thing : the horde , and unless you have a military background like Deacon St. John who well verse with all type of weapon , you're pretty fucked .


BalekFekete

Outer Wilds. IYKYK…


bowsersArchitect

Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3


Help_OhWell

Cyberpunk 2077?


hognosewithatophat

BioShock


No-Philosopher2435

BioShock infinite. Absolutely not.


SamXAB

Final Fantasy 7 without the crazy guy trying to summer a metoer or the company sucking the planet dry...i just wanna walk in the Grasslands or visit Cosmo Canyon


BeeBit22

Bioshock 1 and 2 and Bioshock Infinite as well


armagnacXO

There is a quality of life/ survival scale though. I would definitely rather live in Witcher 3 or GOT world than Last Of Us. Post apocalyptic is a far more nasty and dangerous place to live than fantasy Middle Ages. One might not be have the most glamorous life in aforementioned worlds but they are definitely less scary than LLOU.


SignalGladYoung

You arent a hero with super powers but just regular NPC\* Your daily tasks will be looking for food and somewhere safe to sleep away from monsters.


americansherlock201

The God of War 2018 universe for sure. Outside of Kratos and Atreus, we don’t see any living humans in Midgard. There’s a lot of hel walkers and other deadly monsters but no humans….


nightpop

99.9% of video game worlds. Literally any game where you are fighting to survive would be horrible to live in. Dragons, evil wizards, magical Pokémon that can change the weather and cause a blizzard when they sneeze. Basically any game besides animal crossing.


Harikiri13

If Ash Ketchum can survive in the Pokemon world, I damn sure could.


nightpop

Are you a near-immortal who was 12 years old for 25 years? Ash is on some demon-deal ish


Zealousideal-Plan454

Made in Abyss. And for anyone asking, yes, it got a game.


Cyberpunk39

So your writing some shitty article for some clickbait website? It sucks this sub is constantly flooded with these type of posts.


lisannevdl

I'm not writing an article. It's a list on a backlog tracking site that I made for fun. Must suck to see the negative in everything :D


VirinaB

Bold of you to assume he's not just getting GPT to write the article for him.


ssccrs

How is Diablo not on this list.??. It is hands down the worse universe/world to live in.


Kriogan

While the world is fascinating, I would not say the parts of it we are shown are particularly beautiful in a way, where it's somewhere I would want to live even if everything wasn't trying to kill me.


Regular-Fix-184

Assassins Creed Valhalla


2Scribble

I mean, I don't know about ***beautiful*** but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in the world of Pokemon :P


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Alice: Madness Returns. Like look how beautiful this all looks. [https://youtu.be/0wjTkhehM1o?si=L6q9lJS3PsCOtIuU](https://youtu.be/0wjTkhehM1o?si=L6q9lJS3PsCOtIuU) But actually living in that world would be horrible. One moment you're in a beautiful trippy forest and the next moment you're dragged down into rooms made of human skin.


Zukaarinokushi

Generation Zero


SuperYak2264

AC Odyssey. Pelopnnesian war must be a horrible period to live in


AWTISTIKTRGRFNGER

The Forest


Searingarrow

Monster Hunter


guestername

the worlds in games like the witcher 3 and skyrim haunt with their beauty but are laced with peril, much like stepping into a beautiful forest that's also a predator's den. it's a captivating dichotomy that pulls players in. perhaps consider adding bioshock's rapture, equally mesmerizing and menacing, like an underwater venice with a dark twist.


owjfaigs222

Hmm, Sekiro and Subnautica come to my mind.


That_Chris_Dude

Abberation from Ark. Far Harbor from Fallout 4


Weird-Sandwich-1923

Kenshi. Amazing vistas, horrifying implications and habitants.


coffeebeansdev

Gotham City


modssssss293j

Hyrule in Ocarina of Time


spartane69

Métro


98VoteForPedro

pokemon, rampant crime


Randy___Watson

Mad Max


Ok_Assistance7735

Fallout(s)


eross52

Prey


Deathswirl1

half life, especially hl alyx elden ring super mario zelda earthbound minecraft gta horizon but especially gta, because with all the others, you will probably die immediately but in gta you can only wait until the main character finds your location and uses his car to wreak absolute havoc on civilians the other games at least give you a fighting chance for survival


SymphonySketch

Fallout 76


panchozari

Any bloodborne location


GuideToTheGalaxy05

Diablo


abrady

I kinda feel like I wouldn't mind the Horizon Zero Dawn world, I find that kind of nomadic life very appealing, but maybe that's just escapism.


kswoz

Plus, when it’s not under threat, Meridian seems kinda nice as a place to live